Industrial Production

Informance complements our strategic efforts to migrate all business unites to common platforms.
Ron Christenson
Cargill, Corporate VP and CTO

EMI applications, such as Informance, generally begin to deliver value within days of being installed, offering an ROI that's measured in weeks and months, not years.
Allison Smith
AMR Research, Research Director

We consistently strive for best-in-class manufacturing performance. Informance enables effective continuous improvement, which is key to manufacturing flexibility, low variability, and, ultimately, outstanding customer value.
Ish Ahamed
Diageo Plainfield, VP Supply

Informance allows us to apply TPM loss elimination principles across our plants... We now have visibility of this information regardless of where you sit and can help replicate the improvement gains across multiple factories.
Tony Lippert
Unilever, Plant Manager

Schienvar calls the Informance Manufacturing Intelligence Suite used at L'Oreal a 'beautiful tool.'
Scott Schienvar
L'Oreal, Logistic Director

Informance gives us visibility into all of the facilities across our plant network to drive operational success.
Steve Belke
AkzoNobel, Supply Chain VP

The competitive climate is changing at an increasing pace. Managers are drowning in data, but starving for relevant information.
Carol Ptak
Pacific Lutheran University,
Former President APICS

By focusing on operator-identified problems, we addressed the obstacles from each operation within the value stream.
Pat Hatem
JohnsonDiversey, Plant Manager

We can show the cost of not spending capital at the push of a button.
Rich Mosgrove
Ventura, VP Manufacturing

Industrial Production

Lean principles were originally developed in industrial operations as a set of tools and practices that managers and workers could use to eliminate waste and inefficiency from production systems-reducing costs, improving quality and reliability, and speeding up cycle times.

The art of perfecting these techniques now rests with the ability to leverage real-time analytics to improve the organization's performance. The biggest challenges in adopting the lean approach are to know which of its tools to use and how to apply them as well as gathering the necessary data to make the tools effective. Many companies are leveraging real-time operational intelligence to achieve positive results through frequent kaizen events (group problem-solving sessions) that help plant operations personnel to participate more directly.

Operational executives in many industries are adopting lean techniques rapidly, so soon they will no longer be a differentiating factor; the important thing, in the heat of competition, will be how well companies implement them. The next-level of the lean journey is managing beyond the tools and frameworks and more about building the energy and engagement of employees from the shop floor upward, tapping into their ideas, focusing them on constant problem solving, and keeping them open to change, flexibility and performance.

Informance understands the high-levels of preparation, analysis and commitment required by industrial operations when evaluating their business strategies and operational tactics. Informance provides a proven methodology, domain expertise and tools to identify, quantify and capture operational improvement opportunities. Through a collaborative discovery effort with our clients, we offer manufacturers insight through key industry research, operational performance benchmarking and enabling technologies that provide a competitive advantage in today's fierce marketplace.